Dorset Birds: Tuesday 9th September 2025

Nightjar - 2 Piddle Valley.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wild Woodbury (Dodding's Farm).
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Balearic Shearwater - 25+ off Cogden beach.
Glossy Ibis - 5 Lytchett Fields and Wareham bypass.
Cattle Egret - 26 Frome valley.
Sabine's Gull - 1 West Bay.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Houns-tout.
Hobby - 1 west of Dorchester.
Common Redstart - 1 Piddle Valley.
Whinchat - 6 Wild Woodbury, 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Wild Woodbury, 1 Maiden Castle.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wild Woodbury, 1 Maiden Castle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 7 Piddle Valley, 4 Durlston CP, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Garden Warbler - 2 Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 3 Durlston CP, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Crossbill - 2 Culpeper's Dish.

RARE BREEDING BIRDS

Dorset Bird Club and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel advocate special caution when reporting rare breeding birds as they are vulnerable to persecution and disturbance.

Please consider the birds welfare and do not share details of any rare breeding species on X/Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp groups, personal websites, blogs, or local birdwatching message boards.

We urge all finders of rare birds to consider whether they may be breeding before sharing the news.

Sightings should always be submitted, in confidence, to the county recorder to contribute to long-term national monitoring.

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